Comments on: One month of Goplan http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/ A blog on Goplan, an online project management and collaboration tool by Webreakstuff. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:41:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: oclenj http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-23720 oclenj Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:05:48 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-23720 Imagine czk4490 loop. Froogle has an abcba9e00e items checker. Imagine czk4490 loop. Froogle has an abcba9e00e items checker.

]]> By: Webreakstuff » Catching up http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-7207 Webreakstuff » Catching up Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:21:08 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-7207 [...] It’s now been one month since we launched Goplan (our project management and collaboration web-app)- it’s been quite exciting to get real [...] [...] It’s now been one month since we launched Goplan (our project management and collaboration web-app)- it’s been quite exciting to get real [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-3101 Andrew Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:22:29 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-3101 Re: Gantt Charts I am as adament about using Gantt charts to help with project manangement as Jason Fried (of Basecamp) is about saying they will NEVER make them. Which is why I won't use Basecamp. What is your take? Will Goplan offer Gantt chart reporting as a feature in the near future? Andrew Re: Gantt Charts

I am as adament about using Gantt charts to help with project manangement as Jason Fried (of Basecamp) is about saying they will NEVER make them. Which is why I won’t use Basecamp.

What is your take? Will Goplan offer Gantt chart reporting as a feature in the near future?

Andrew

]]> By: James http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-3027 James Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:56:39 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-3027 Fred - Thanks for the reply. Using EC2 does rather explain things - we've recently been testing it ourselves. As you point out, it certainly is solid. However, we've been disappointed with the speed: latency in particular is poor in all the instances we've tested, regardless of O/S. As an aside, what surprised me most is how slow the link between EC2 and S3 was! Cameron: unfortunately it's not as simple as throwing more EC2 instances at the problem - I don't think that processor capacity is the bottleneck, more the general responsiveness of Amazon's cloud, though Fred will know exactly where the bottlenecks are occurring. In the end, we went back to a traditional load-balanced cluster for performance reasons. Serves us right for trying to save a few quid... James Fred – Thanks for the reply.

Using EC2 does rather explain things – we’ve recently been testing it ourselves. As you point out, it certainly is solid. However, we’ve been disappointed with the speed: latency in particular is poor in all the instances we’ve tested, regardless of O/S. As an aside, what surprised me most is how slow the link between EC2 and S3 was!

Cameron: unfortunately it’s not as simple as throwing more EC2 instances at the problem – I don’t think that processor capacity is the bottleneck, more the general responsiveness of Amazon’s cloud, though Fred will know exactly where the bottlenecks are occurring.

In the end, we went back to a traditional load-balanced cluster for performance reasons. Serves us right for trying to save a few quid…

James

]]> By: Cameron http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-3026 Cameron Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:51:56 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-3026 * Speed, speed, speed. Either more EC2 instances, or a beefier database, or more caching, something. * Seeing all issues assigned to me, or tickets i've created without having to go into each project. * Down the road, the ability to email tickets would be fantastic. I'd like to setup a support@mydomain.com for customers, and have tickets created, so that Go Plan can be used as a support center. Lighthouse is doing some interesting things in this regard. I really like the interface and potential, just please make it usable. * Speed, speed, speed. Either more EC2 instances, or a beefier database, or more caching, something.

* Seeing all issues assigned to me, or tickets i’ve created without having to go into each project.

* Down the road, the ability to email tickets would be fantastic. I’d like to setup a support@mydomain.com for customers, and have tickets created, so that Go Plan can be used as a support center.
Lighthouse is doing some interesting things in this regard.

I really like the interface and potential, just please make it usable.

]]> By: Fred Oliveira http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-3024 Fred Oliveira Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:41:38 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-3024 James - first of all, thanks for leaving a comment. We are concerned that you don't find Goplan speedy enough - and rest assured we'll be doing whatever possible to bump the speed up. Right now Goplan is running on Amazon's EC2 platform and servers, which theoretically should mean "fast" (it does mean "stable"). We'll look into other options and definitely post something up about this. Rest assured we'll be following up on this one. Thanks again! James – first of all, thanks for leaving a comment. We are concerned that you don’t find Goplan speedy enough – and rest assured we’ll be doing whatever possible to bump the speed up. Right now Goplan is running on Amazon’s EC2 platform and servers, which theoretically should mean “fast” (it does mean “stable”). We’ll look into other options and definitely post something up about this.

Rest assured we’ll be following up on this one. Thanks again!

]]> By: James http://blog.goplanapp.com/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 James Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:04:21 +0000 http://blog.goplan.info/2007/04/20/one-month-of-goplan/#comment-3022 I love the features you've got in place - this software is pretty much everything I was hoping for and a definite BC killer. But, I can't use it for everyday project management work. Why? The site is just too slow. Page loads take 4-5 seconds to appear, compared with 1-2 seconds for Basecamp. AJAX requests sometimes timeout! Adding 2 or 3 tasks should take a few seconds. Instead, it's a job which requires a minute or more of staring at the screen while the page reloads. Don't get me wrong - the software itself is excellent, I'm just frustrated by how slow it is. I've showed it to a client and it was their first comment. I even signed up for a higher-rate plan to see if it would put me on a more responsive server! No joy :( Please, folks - I'd love to use this service more often. I love the features you’ve got in place – this software is pretty much everything I was hoping for and a definite BC killer.

But, I can’t use it for everyday project management work. Why? The site is just too slow.

Page loads take 4-5 seconds to appear, compared with 1-2 seconds for Basecamp. AJAX requests sometimes timeout! Adding 2 or 3 tasks should take a few seconds. Instead, it’s a job which requires a minute or more of staring at the screen while the page reloads.

Don’t get me wrong – the software itself is excellent, I’m just frustrated by how slow it is. I’ve showed it to a client and it was their first comment. I even signed up for a higher-rate plan to see if it would put me on a more responsive server! No joy :(

Please, folks – I’d love to use this service more often.

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